D&D (2024) Deborah Ann Woll and Matt Mercer consulted on the 2024 DMG.

WotC consulted with celebrities including True Blood's Deborah Ann Woll and Critical Role's Matt Mercer when revising the upcoming 2024 edition of the Dungeon Master's Guide. Apparently another (unnamed) consultant provided advice on running game for kids.

That's it; that's the news.

 

[bedir than]

Didn't they lay off a big %% of their staff, including designers, a few months ago?

It was one designer that we know of. The team is ~10

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I don't know. We've had decades of Weis and Greenwood. I'm interested in seeing what new ideas comes with new blood.

And I, for one, enjoy Matt Mercer’s setting much more that the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, or Barovia. I’m generally not a fan of Greenwood’s and Weis’/Hickman’s work.

 

[R_J_K75]

I believe, which is why his PC and his players from his table are NPCs in Tiamats court.

Is Tom Morello in the court?

 

[Parmandur]

Is Tom Morello in the court?

No, Arkhan the Cruel, Joe's character from Critical Role is.

 

[Zardnaar]

Can't really think of anything worse in gaming than watching others play D&D. Bleah. Woukd rather slather peanut butter over my love spuds and dangle them over an ant heap.

Doesn't offend me if others like it meh.

Probably grab the new PHB and then love or hate it based on its contents.

Haven't seen anything yet tgat excites me or repukses me. Vile minion of neutrality.

 

[Hussar]

Which in a way is kind of sad. I’d rather they consult people like Ed Greenwood and Margaret Weis over “streamer DM”.

But i also get it’s a different world and player audience from 20 or more years ago so yeah… and I’m willing to bet more people know Mercer over Salvatore. Which is really sad IMO but it is what it is.

Really? Matt Mercer is "Streamer DM"? Seriously? This is someone who has a couple of major 5e writing credits to his name and has probably done more to promote D&D than any other person, ever.

This isn't some random guy off Youtube. This is someone with serious writing chops and credits who has created a gaming world that is becoming just as influential on the hobby as Forgotten Realms.

And do you really think Greenwood isn't a consultant somewhere in 5e?

 

[DarkCrisis]

I don't know. We've had decades of Weis and Greenwood. I'm interested in seeing what new ideas comes with new blood.

Like I basically said, it’s a new world.

 

[Zaukrie]

I gave up after a few pages. What a bunch of negative people

 

[Autumnal]

.

If you don't want proficient DMs who have written D&D material in a DMG who should write it? Politicians?

When I think of Dungeon Mastery, I think of:

• Lacanian interpreters of Foucaultian critique of capitalistic distortion of leisure, and
• cosmologists working in a post-string theory milieu of non-multiverse conformal cyclic cosmologies.

Who else? I mean, duh, dude, it’s so freakin’ obvious.

 

[michaeljpastor]

To me, this is about as controversial as a skateboard company consulting with Tony Hawk.

But Tony Hawk hawking CO Q10? Scandalous!